Pirates Play Hamptons Intercollegiate, Oct. 7-8

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - The Seton Hall men's golf team will return to action starting Sunday with three rounds of golf at the 2019 Hamptons Intercollegiate at the Maidstone Club, October 7-8.

Tournament Details:
2019 HAMPTONS INTERCOLLEGIATE
Host: Loyola University (Md.)
Location: East Hampton, N.Y.
Course: Maidstone Club
Course Vitals: Par-72, 6,673 yards
Dates: October 7-8, 2019

The Course:
The Club derives its name from the original name for East Hampton, which was Maidstone, named after Maidstone in England. It was founded as a 7-hole course in 1894 and expanded to eighteen holes in 1899. The Club was the summer retreat of New York City's most wealthy and socially connected families. Maidstone is considered to be the most elite, prestigious and difficult to get into of all the clubs in "The Hamptons".

Willie Dunn laid out the first course in 1894; it was but a rudimentary 7-hole layout. Seth Raynor drew up re-design plans in 1921. Then in 1924 Willie Park, Jr. and his brother Jack designed the 80-acre (320,000 m2) Gardiner Peninsula addition. The expansion resulted in the club having two 18-hole courses, but this was reduced to the current 27-hole layout by the hurricane of 1938.

The Parks' routing on the 80 acres on Gardiner's Peninsula and the remaining 50 acres introduces multiple hazards at various angles, including a marsh, Hook Pond, sand dunes, beach grass, reeds, well-placed bunkers, out of bounds and the ever-present wind.

In 2014, Maidstone was ranked #37 in Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses in the U.S." list, and #67 in their "Top 100 Courses in the World" list.

The Field:
In addition to Seton Hall and host Loyola, the small field includes seven other schools: Brown, Cornell, Oregon State, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Richmond and Yale.

The Seton Hall Lineup:

Gregor Tait, Junior
Andres Acevedo, Junior
Deven Ramachandran, Sophomore
Wenliang Xie, Freshman
Peter Tyler Po, Sophomore

Individual – Ian Lee, Sophomore

Last Time Out:
In only his second collegiate tournament, freshman Wenliang Xie (Zhaoqing, China) claimed the individual title of the 2019 Hartford Hawks Invitational. Xie's efforts helped lift the Seton Hall men's golf team to a third-place team finish.

Xie entered the day tied with Rider's Jake Sollon for the individual lead, but was able to jump ahead by virtue of a 3-under-par, 69, on Tuesday. Xie won the event by one stroke over Fairleigh Dickinson's Melan Dhaubhadel with a 10-under-par, 70-67-69-206. Sollon finished two strokes behind.

Collectively, Seton Hall put together a third consecutive strong round, finishing with a 2-under-par, 286, to hop Rider in the final team standings. The Hall finished the event as one of only four teams to shoot under par for the tournament with a 3-under-par, 290-285-286-861. It's only the 13th time in history that Seton Hall has shot under par for a tournament, and the Pirates' 861 is tied for the fifth-lowest par-72, three-round team score.

Tee Times:
The field will play two continuous rounds on Monday with tee times beginning at 7:40 a.m. A final 18 holes will be played on Tuesday.

Results:
Live scoring will be available during the tournament. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.